Sculpture seems to be having a well deserved moment in the sun within the media at the moment, I hope the interest will be sustained. We seem to give less attention to Sculpture than to paintings, just visiting any art gallery confirms this. I am interested in how people conduct themselves within the gallery space and I have noticed that Sculpture galleries are often treated as corridors, simply walked through en route to reach the picture galleries.
I do not profess to know a great deal about sculpture, that I love it, is enough for me.
I find the details of sculpture bewitching, particularly, hands and feet. A well sculpted pair of hands can be incredibly articulate as with the hands of John Gibson's 1860 Marble, Pandora ( V & A ). Gibson successfully articulates through Pandora's hands her indecision. Pandora is on the cusp of action then pulls back from it for a brief moment, her hands revealing a feverish desire to open the box and a tension that she should not. This paradoxical sense of action and inaction could be said to be an intrinsic trait of many Pandora sculptures, however, I feel that hands of Gibson's Pandora are more successful than most at conveying this inner conflict.
'A roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace'.
I love the bombastic quality of the Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto, but on the topic of the Victory of Samothrace, we are diametrically opposed. The first sighting of the Winged Victory of Samothrace at the top of a beautiful staircase in the Louvre is really something to behold. She rises above everything around her elevated by her beauty and physical presence. As one of my favourite sculptures I am constantly amazed at her scale and the simple fluidity of her lines. The floating gossamer robe, the sense of motion and a complete sense of awe at the capability of the hands that released her from the block of marble in around 190 bc, for me makes the Victory absolutely breathtaking. Moreover, despite the Futurist's manifesto declaration regarding the Victory, a comparison of Umberto Boccioni's bronze, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, to the Victory reveals a parity of line and motion – the Victory is perhaps more of an influence than they would care to admit!
Cemeteries have some of the most exquisite examples sculpture. Jules Dalou's life size bronze of the journalist Victor Noir is perhaps one of the most extraordinary grave memorials I have seen. Extraordinary, not because it has any radical qualities, it is a bronze in the tradition of bronzes. Its quality is derived from its heightened sense of corporeality. Approaching the grave is like arriving immediately upon the scene of Noir's death, it is easy to imagine the duel in which he died as you stand next to the memorial. The beautifully crisp top hat is a bewitching detail, looking as if it had toppled to the ground as he fell.
Noir's monument has also become something of a fertility symbol owing to the infamous sculpted protuberance. I love that as a memorial to a deceased 19th century man in Paris's Pere La Chaise, a veritable city of the dead, Victor Noir has become a symbol of life and hope.
I love so many pieces of sculpture that it would be impossible to list and describe them here, so instead I have created in addition to the pieces already described a short list of favourites.
Clytie by G.F Watts, a bronze version can be seen at the V & A London and a marble at the Harris Museum, Preston.
Oscar Wilde's Funerary monument by Jacob Epstein, Pere La Chaise Cemetery, Paris.


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The visit came about when Year 11 Society and Culture students took charge of their learning, identifying a range of experts they would like to speak to about holistic viewpoints on the Australian political landscape and how history plays a role in this. Peter FitzSimons and Sir Peter Cosgrove, Australia's Governor-General were at the top of their list.
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This is post #4 of a blog series I'm writing including pictures of the recent amazing trip I took with our precious, beautiful daughter Leah. Here are posts #1, My daughter Leah and I went to Ireland, #2, Ireland: Dreams Come True, and #3, We visited Bunratty Castle in Ireland.
My heart is aching to go back to Ireland! My and our daughter Leah's vacation there was just too short! I believe I'll go back again one day and am already praying about this!
Before Leah and I visited Bunratty Castle in Ireland, we walked around Bunratty Folk Park, which is right by it. It's a quaint little village filled with rural, primitive homes and shops, reminiscent of the 19th Century.
The first place we saw was the Tea Room, where visitors were drinking tea and enjoying scones. The scones in Ireland are delicious! They are light, fluffy, and sweet, reminding me of a combination between a biscuit and a little cake. They're often served with butter and jams.
The houses and buildings in Bunratty Folk Park are recreated and furnished as they would have appeared at that time according to their social standing, from the poorest one-room house to Bunratty House, a Georgian residence of the last family who occupied Bunratty Castle. Leah seemed especially interested in the poor one-room house, which had a sign hanging on it outside that the servant worked for 80 days for the landlord on the land, renting the house, and after that he owned the house. Most of the houses were simple and plain, with a thatched roof.
Several of the houses had chickens or other animals in the yard or nearby, such as goat, pigs, and chickens. Each family had to provide for their own needs in food, clothing, and supplies. I took a pic of the pig for our red-headed granddaughter Violet, who adores pigs!
I love sheep and was happy to get a pic of this one lone lamb grazing in a pasture. It reminded me of how Jesus is the Good Shepherd who loves His sheep and takes care of them, something God has been speaking to me much about the last several years. Jesus talked about the Good Shepherd leaving the 99 to go after the one lost lamb. (Matthew 18:12) My song for this year which has this theme is Reckless Love by Cory Asbury.
Leah liked the two Irish wolfhounds, although they were sleeping when we looked at them. Historically, the wolfhound was a dog that only nobles could own and was taken up by the British during their rule in Ireland. It's been adopted as a symbol by the national rugby league team and the Irish Rugby Football Union.
I took a pic of these pigs for Violet!
Although I couldn't wait to drive to the Cliffs of Moher (one of the main reasons I wanted to see Ireland), I'm so happy that Leah and I walked around this village in the cool, peaceful outdoors. Leah loves nature like me, and I felt this time ministered to her soul.
The houses were quite primitive, decorated with old furniture like tables, beds, and hope chests and a few kitchen items.
I could hardly believe we were walking around in Ireland; it felt surreal! It is so green, just like you've heard and imagined. One of the first things we saw in the village was a small but beautiful waterfall. I love waterfalls, so this really blessed me!
Another cool thing we saw in the village was a water mill, which is a mill that uses hydropower. It is a structure that uses a water wheel or water turbine to drive a mechanical process such as milling (grinding), rolling, or hammering.
At one house, there was a marble scuplture that was so pretty of the Virgin Mary and child Jesus.
The village also had a pretty church.
Bunratty Folk Park also had a quaint fairy village for children. Ireland is well known for "lucky" four-leaf clovers, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, leprechauns, fairies, ghost stories, and other folklore. While I believe much of this is demonic in nature, Leah and I both thought the fairy door in a tree was cute.
At the big mushroom park, a mom was taking pics of her children. Afterward she said to them, "Fabulous pic! Wow!" Her little boy ran off saying like a parrot, "Oh wow, wow, wow!" Both Leah and I laughed.
There was also a pretty flower garden in the village. This reminded me a little of The Secret Garden, a book and a movie that we read and watched when I homeschooled Leah when she was younger, that she enjoyed. Homeschooling our kids has given me some of my most precious, sweetest memories, especially when we went on fun field trips.
I'm so glad I was able to go on this trip to Ireland with Leah and make more good memories!
I don't know what these red flowers are named, but Leah and I both thought they were unique and beautiful. The garden also had sunflowers, some of my favorite flowers. Each time I see flowers, I think of my beautiful daughter Heather. Heather's name comes from a beautiful, purple-blue flower that covers hills and is found widely in Europe.
In my next post in this Ireland Blog Series, I'll share about our visit to the Cliffs of Moher–the highlight of the trip for Leah and me both. Be sure to check out the beautiful pics!


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Обло́га Константино́поля — перша облога, здійснена османськими військами столиці  Візантії в 1394—1402 роках. Фактично складалася з декількох кампаній: 1394—1396, 1397—1398, 1400—1402 років.

Передумови
Протягом 1380-х років османський султан Баязід I Блискавичний підкорив усю західну частину Малої Азії, а інші малоазійські бейлики визнали васальну залежність від Османської імперії.

До 1393 року було підкорено усю Болгарію, Македонію та Фессалію, а також Північну Грецію. В результаті Візантійська імперія з суходолу опинилася відрізаною від інших християнських держав. Осман також контролювали фортеці на узбережжі Геллеспонту і Мармурового моря. За цих обставин перед султаном постала необхідність захоплення Константинополя, що мав би поєднати балканські і азійські володіння Османів. До того ж столиця Візантії було великим містом й важливим політико-економічним центром.

Перебіг подій
1394 року за наказом Баязида I османські війська блокували Константинополь. Втім він не мав достатньо потужного флоту, щоб здійснити облогу з моря. Через розміри міста на ці дії султан відволік чималі сили. Цим вирішили скористатися європейські держави на чолі із Сигізмундом Люксембургом, королем Угорщини, якого підтримали бургундці, французи і англійці. До того в збережжі Константинополя були зацікавлені венеціанці і генуезці, який через Босфор мали змогу здійснювати торгівлю здержавами Азово-Чорноморського узбережжя, насамперед Золотою Ордою і Грузією.

Проти Османської імперії виступило потужне хрестоносне військо. За цих обставин Баязид I вимушен був фактично зняти облогу Константинополя, залишивши невелички загони. Тому більшість сучасних турецьких істориків розглядає цей період як окрему облогу Константинополя.

Лише після перемоги над хрестоносцями у битві при Нікополі 1396 року, османський султан вирішив поновити облогу візантійської столиці. Повноцінна блокада почалася 1397 року. На допомогу візантійцям прибуло 600 французьких лицарів та 8 венеційських військових суден.

Невзмозі захопити місто, 1398 року султан погодився укласти перемир'я з візантійським імператором Мануїлом II, який визнав себе васалом та зобов'язався сплачувати щорічну данину в 10 тис. золотих дукатів.

1400 року Баязид I знову спробував захопити Константинополя, проте без успіху. Фактично здійснював блокаду міста до 1402 року, коли отримав звістку про вторгнення до Малої Азії чагатайського аміра Тимура.

Джерела
 Merçil, Erdoğan. (2007). «Türkler ve İstanbul (Fethe Kadar)», 550. Yılında Fetih ve İstanbul: Bildiriler (İstanbul, 14-15 Haziran 2003), Ankara: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Yayınları. s. 63-77, ISBN 9789751619624
Конфлікти в 1394
Облоги Константинополя
Візантійсько-османські битви
Конфлікти в 1402
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President, Columbia University
Lee C. Bollinger became Columbia University's 19th president in 2002 and is the longest serving Ivy League president. Under his leadership, Columbia stands again at the very top rank of great research universities, distinguished by comprehensive academic excellence, an innovative and sustainable approach to global engagement, the largest capital campaign in Ivy League history, and the institution's most ambitious campus expansion in over a century.
Bollinger is Columbia's first Seth Low Professor of the University, a member of the Law School faculty, and one of the country's foremost First Amendment scholars. Each fall semester, he teaches "Freedom of Speech and Press" to Columbia undergraduate students. His latest book, The Free Speech Century, co-edited with Geoffrey R. Stone, was published in the fall of 2018 by Oxford University Press.
Bollinger is a director of Graham Holdings Company (formerly The Washington Post Company) and serves as a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board. From 2007 to 2012, he was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he also served as Chair from 2010 to 2012.
From 1996 to 2002, Bollinger was the President of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He led the university's historic litigation in Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, Supreme Court decisions that upheld and clarified the importance of diversity as a compelling justification for affirmative action in higher education. He speaks and writes frequently about the value of racial, cultural, and socio-economic diversity through columns, interviews, and appearances around the country and across the world.
Associate Director, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression
Dr. Hawley Johnson is the Associate Director of Columbia Global Freedom of Expression. Since 2014 she has managed the development of the Case Law Database which hosts analyses of seminal freedom of expression court rulings from more than 130 countries. Hawley has over twelve years of experience in international media development both academically and professionally, with a focus on Eastern Europe. From 2013-2014 she worked with the award-winning Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project to launch the Investigative Dashboard (ID), a joint effort with Google Ideas offering specialized databases and research tools for journalists in emerging democracies. Previously, as the Associate Director of the Media and Conflict Resolution Program at New York University, she oversaw the implementation of over eight US government sponsored media development programs in eleven countries. In 2012, she completed her Ph.D. in Communications at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Her dissertation – a study of the evolution of media development policies in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo and Macedonia – was grounded in extensive field research in the region. She has a M.A. from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and a B.A. in International Affairs from the School of International Service at American University.
Marietta Cauchi
Media Law Consultant
Editor, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression
Marietta Cauchi spent fifteen years as a commercial and media lawyer in London where she represented media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, New York Times and Economist and online-based publications and advised on international and complex litigation and all areas of media law. Subsequently Ms Cauchi worked for twelve years as a journalist for Dow Jones Newswires/Wall Street Journal covering financial services, investigative and regulatory matters and defence. Ms. Cauchi works with the International Senior Lawyers Project advising, training and writing for NGOs, journalists, other media officials and staff on human rights, defamation, privacy, data protection, freedom of information and related rights globally. Ms. Cauchi has also written authoritative legal articles for a number of reference books, trade magazines and online platforms, specifically on defamation and media law, intellectual property rights and litigation.
Sofía Jaramillo
Digital Rights Fellow, International Justice Clinic, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Sofia Jaramillo-Otoya is the Digital Rights Fellow and co-supervisor of the International Justice Clinic at the University of California, Irvine. Sofia has devoted much of her career to international human rights mechanisms: she served as legal advisor to David Kaye, the Special UN Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression and Agnes Callamard, the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, summary or arbitrary, and as a human rights specialist for two Special Rapporteurs for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Prior to her position, she was the legal officer at Columbia University's Global Freedom of Expression. Sofía has also worked and consulted for regional organizations in Latin America such Dejusticia, Civitas, the Foundation for Free Press (FLIP) and the Inter-American Press Association.
Sofia completed her initial legal degree in Colombia, at Rosario University, and earned an LLM from Columbia Law School in New York, where she was a Human Rights Fellow. Sofia graduated from Columbia with the academic recognition of Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and a Certificate in International and Comparative Law.
Caroline James
Caroline James is a South African freedom of expression lawyer and recently completed her M.A. at Queen's University in Canada. She has BA(Hons) and LLB degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. Her research interests are in constitutional and human rights law – particularly the way in which power is held to account. Caroline previously worked as the freedom of expression lawyer at the Southern Africa Litigation Centre in Johannesburg where she worked with lawyers and organizations in southern Africa litigating and advocating for the right to freedom of expression and association. Caroline has also worked as a judge's clerk at the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg.
Legal Researchers
Iyadh Abid
Legal Researcher
Iyadh ABID is an independent Legal and Policy Consultant based in Tunis. He works on investment reforms, privacy issues and Justice sector reforms. Iyadh is a Fulbright alumnus holding a Master in Common Law from "Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et Sociales de Tunis" and an LL.M. from Penn State Law. He formerly served as Adviser to the Minister of Development, Investment and International Cooperation and Adviser to the Minister of Industry and Trade in Tunisia, where he was involved in designing and implementing several legal and regulatory reforms. Iyadh previously worked with national and international NGOs and was Director of Africa Programs with PennState Law from 2018 to 2020. He is the co-founder of NGO LEAD Tunisia and instigator of the Penn State Law scholarship program for Tunisian law graduates.
Mohit Agarwal
Mohit Agarwal is a final year law student at Gujarat National Law University, India and the Senior Editor of the University's Journal of Law and Economics. His current research focuses on platform and digital market regulation and its intersection with content moderation. He was the first Indian undergraduate student to have his work published by Concurrences, a leading antitrust publishing firm and is an alumna of Herbert Smith Freehills Competition Law Moot.
During his time at law school, he interned with a varied set of prestigious firms and institutions, including Human Rights Law Network where he assisted Senior Advocate Gayatri Singh in a dispute involving a governmental housing and developmental scheme. He is also a Teaching Assistant at his University where he takes great pleasure in mentoring his junior peers.
Mohammad Almoghabat
Mohammad Almoghabat is currently the Outreach and Development Manager at HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement and doing a Ph.D. in International Constitutional Law at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, with a former LL.M in International and European Law from the same university and a BA in Law from Beirut Arab University. He is a National Consultant for UNDP-Lebanon and a Legal Consultant on several legal issues specifically; contract & corporate law and human resources policies, providing support on the international protection of human rights and UPR mechanism, drafting project proposals and a certified trainer on Digital Security.
He is a specialized consultant on Access to Information in a number of MENA region countries; recently published a comprehensive legal study on ATI in Lebanon for Transparency International and the Lebanese Transparency Association. He also has a number of publications in international journals including the definition of torture in international law and on the just-war theory, also another study measuring the commitment of the Lebanese government to the ATI Law with Gherbal Initiative.
Jihene Arbi
Jihene Arbi is a Tunisian lawyer, member of the Tunisian Bar since 2016. She is a trainer in the PARJ project for Justice Sector Reform in Tunisia, and has experience in human rights advocacy and gender policies. She has received the Special Mention Award in the "Memorial of Caen" on the occasion of her plea on gender and equality. As a lawyer, Jihen has litigation experience in criminal and civil law cases with a particular interest in domestic courts application of International law standards".
Ana Dangova Hug
Lawyer, Law firm INTER PARTES Skopje, Macedonia
Ana Dangova Hug is a lawyer practicing at the Law firm INTER PARTES Skopje, specialising in international human rights law, criminal law and litigation. Before that she worked for the Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. She holds a Master in International Studies, with specialization in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva.
Ms. Dangova Hug has acted as a counsel in numerous human rights challenges involving the right to freedom of expression before the national courts. She is a Trainer for the Macedonian Academy for Judges and Public Prosecutors.
Together with the Danish Institute of Human Rights, she led the preparation of the first national guide on Human Rights and Business in Macedonia, and contributed to publications of various organizations, including DCAF, Kluwer Law International and the World Bank.
Giovanni De Gregorio
Giovanni De Gregorio is postdoctoral researcher working with the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Oxford.
His research focuses on digital constitutionalism, platform governance and digital policy.
Prannv Dhawan
Prannv Dhawan is a penultimate-year undergraduate student at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru. He co-founded the Law School Policy Review which is an open-access platform for critical analysis of principal social, political and legal issues. He is an editor of the National Law School of India Review. He has also served as an editor of the Indian Journal of International Economic Law and the University of Bologna Law Review in the past. In addition to leading the Law and Society Committee in his law school, he is a part of the various research projects and academic initiatives. Previously, he has interned with Senior Advocate Shyam Divan and Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves at the Supreme Court of India. He has also assisted Senior Advocate Indira Jaising with drafting a critical comment on the Draft Press Registration Bill, 2019 which was submitted to the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. He has also written a number of articles and blogs on constitutional law, gender justice, foreign policy and human rights.
Mohamed Farahat
Mohamed Farahat is an Egyptian lawyer. He is a human rights lawyer, legal trainer and legal and political researcher. He joined Egyptian Foundation for Refugees Rights (EFRR) in 2014, first as Access to Justice team leader than as Coordinator of EFRR's legal aid project with UNHCR, currently as programs director. He has held his current position since March 2015. In addition, Mr. Farahat joined African Civil Society on Information Society (ACSIS) since November 2017 as a member and National coordinator (ACSIS-Egypt). Prior to joining EFRR, he worked for Africa and Middle East Refugee Assistance (AMERA-Egypt) as access to Justice team leader, he worked for the International Commission for Jurists (ICJ) as a legal researcher.
Mr. Farahat hold a BA degree in Law from Cairo University, he obtained a post graduate diploma in Human Rights and civil society, post graduate diploma in International Negotiation, post graduate diploma in African Studies, and post graduate diploma in International law. Currently Mr. Farahat is a Master's degree researcher at the Faculty of High African Studies-Cairo University.
Mr. Farahat has some published articles related to refugees; in addition, he organized and was guest speaker in workshops related to Refugees' digital rights.
Mr. Farahat is a member of the Steering Committee of Internet Rights and Principles Coalition (IRPC) Internet Society (ISOC), individual member of ICANN's Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG). Recently Mr. Farahat was selected as a MAG member at North Africa IGF.
Mr. Farahat is Alumni of Middle East and Adjoining Countries School in Internet Governance (MAGSIG 2018), North Africa School in Internet Governance (NASIG 2019) and participated at many IG meetings such as the Global IGF 2017 and 2018 as speaker and workshop organizer, African IGF2017. Recently he organized a workshop during the Digital Rights and Inclusion forum 2019.
Ilaria Fevola
Ilaria Fevola is currently working for the Italian NGO Ossigeno per l'Informazione, an independent observatory that monitors threats to freedom of expression, attacks to journalists and news overshadowed by violence in Italy.
Recently, she worked as legal intern at London-based MLDI (Media Legal Defence Initiative), where she supported the organization in providing legal defence to journalists and bloggers before international and regional courts. Previously, Ms. Fevola interned at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris in the Communication and Information sector, division of Freedom of Expression and Media Development. She mainly worked on events and projects implementing the UN Plan of Action for the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. She had also worked as legal researcher at WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers), focusing extensively on the balance between freedom of expression and privacy, the right to be forgotten and press freedom-related issues.
Ms. Fevola holds a master degree in Law from the University of Torino (Italy), with a master thesis on the issue of extraterritoriality and the jurisdictional challenges in the age of the Internet under public international and EU law. She has a particular interest in media law and human rights matters with a focus on international organizations. She has had the occasion of specialising in such domain by studying at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the Harvard Law School and the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is also member of the Journalists' Safety Research Network hosted by the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) at the University of Sheffield (UK) and supported by UNESCO.
Mostafa Fouad
Mostafa is an Egyptian Human Rights Lawyer.
Also, he is a political and legal researcher and has many published researches (the Egyptian protesting law, media law, the interference of executive authorities in legislation, the execution law…), in addition to several studies on hate speech and racism.
Mostafa has run multiple positions in civil society with 10 years of experience in MENA region, and now he is the Deputy Director of HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement.
He is also a founding member of "Innovation For Change MENA-Hub", and a Board member of "MENA Network for Countering Hate Speech".
Rahul Garg
Rahul Garg is a law and policy sciences student majoring in constitutional law at National Law University, Jodhpur. His current research interests include international human rights law, gender expression, gender and sexuality, the integration of law and feminism, the study of sexism and the broader impact which the inter-generative relationship between laws and sexism has on the rights of women globally, areas in which he has written for various international platforms.
He was a visiting summer school participant in the International Criminal Court Summer School held at the National University of Ireland in summer 2019 as well as the Internet Law Summer School held at the University of Geneva in summer 2018, and has more recently interned with the gender and sexuality team of Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, worked as an intern with an organization aiming at the inclusion of transgender people at workplace in India and also works as a staff reporter and editor for JURIST at the University of Pittsburgh, where he reports on public law issues impacting the LGBTQ+ community globally.
Ritika Goyal
Ritika Goyal is a law student at National University of Study and Research in Law (NUSRL), Ranchi, India. Her research interests center around international human rights law, criminal justice system and public policy. As a research assistant to Ms. Maja Daruwala, she has worked extensively on police and prison reforms. Previously, she has interned with leading Indian think tanks and international research organisations, that includes Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and Project 39A. She has contributed to the literature by publishing articles on varied areas at well known national and international platforms. She has also served as a research assistant to Prof. Dr. Manoj Kumar Sinha and Prof. Dipika Jain, and assisted them on multiple projects including CEDAW and women's rights. At Columbia, she mainly looks at the cases concerning fake news and police misadministration.
Emily Ho
Emily Ho recently graduated with a triple first-class degree in Law from the University of Cambridge. Her dissertation focused on discrimination law and the interaction of Articles 10 and 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights (freedom of expression and freedom of religion) with equality rights in a liberal society. During her time at Cambridge, she was an associate editor for the Cambridge Law Review, a contributing writer for the Human Rights Law Society, and a research panelist for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She also achieved various awards for academic excellence, including the De Hart Prize in Law.
This academic year she will be training to be a barrister in the UK. In August 2021, she will enroll in the LLM programme at Harvard Law School.
Hatim Hussain
Hatim Hussain is a lawyer, currently pursuing Masters at Tsinghua University, China as a Schwarzman Scholar and on track for the completion of post graduate studies in Law at the University of Oxford on the Rhodes Scholarship.
He has previously worked in various capacities with leading research institutions, including most recently with University of Cambridge's Centre for Alternative Finance where his role focuses on regulatory sequencing in relation to development of an automated regulatory intelligence platform as well as authoring reports in the domains of law, finance and technology. In the past, Hatim has also served as a judicial intern with Justice Dr. D. Y. Chandrachud at the Supreme Court of India.
His main focus lies at the intersection of technology and human rights.
Samira Mathias
Samira Mathias graduated from Gujarat National Law University in 2020, and is presently reading for the Bachelor of Civil Law at the University of Oxford (class of 2021) with a focus on international law and armed conflict, constitutional theory, jurisprudence and human rights.
She was part of the 2018 winning team of the Red Cross IHL Moot, and is an alumna of both the Jessup Moot Court Competition (2020) and the Oxford Price Media Moot Court Competition (2021) which strongly piqued her interest in freedom of expression issues. Her areas of interest include transitional justice and public international law, which she had the chance to work on during internships at the United Nations International Law Commission (Switzerland) and the South Asian Centre for Legal Studies (Sri Lanka).
Raghav Mendiratta
Raghav Mendiratta is a student of Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law, Punjab pursuing B.A.LLB (Hons.). At the University, he is the Convener of the Centre for Advanced Studies in Criminal Law and also heads the Debate Society. He has participated in various International moot court and debate competitions. He was an Oralist at the 11th Price Media Moot Court Competition (South Asia) where his team emerged the Winner and also won the Best Memorial Award. Previously, he has interned under Supreme Court Justice U.U. Lalit, former Additional Solicitor General of India Mr. Sidharth Luthra and with other human rights organizations.
Celine Merhej
Celine Merhej is a researcher and analyst specialized in supporting democratic governance reforms, with a focus on anti-corruption, transparency, and the rule of law. A native of Lebanon, Ms. Merhej is currently managing a project related to transparency in the public sector at Gherbal Initiative. She holds a Bachelor of Sciences in Economics from Notre-Dame University. Ms. Merhej has had previous experience with UNDP's regional anti-corruption project in the Arab states specifically in Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan, Morocco, and Iraq, as well as an International observer for the Carter Center in the Tunisian Presidential Elections in 2019. Ms. Merhej is also a certified facilitator by the British Council, and is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.
Christopher Merken
Christopher is a third-year law student at Villanova Law School. A recipient of Villanova Law's full tuition Dean's Merit Scholarship, Christopher graduated cum laude from the University of Delaware with a BA in Political Science in December 2016. While at UD, Christopher interned for Vice President Joe Biden as a White House Intern and conducted legal research on the Warren Court as well as freedom of assembly of political parties in Europe. Christopher will clerk for two federal judges following the conclusion of his JD program at Villanova Law, and is a passionate world traveler.
Nancy Nahouly
Nancy Nahouly is a Lebanese lawyer, Member of the Beirut Bar Association since 2009.
Certified mediator & ADR specialist. She is also a Legal consultant for several international human rights organizations including UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and Intersos. Also, a contributor to several Human rights studies in Lebanon.
Solomon Okedara
Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
Solomon Okedara, Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, is a practicing legal practitioner and Researcher with over ten (10) years post-call experience and outstanding expertise in Human Rights (with a special bias for Freedom of Expression & Digital Rights), Intellectual Property, International Business and International Law, having an unusual knack for excellence and matchless clients' satisfaction with a view to delivering maximal results. Armed with a peerless ability in creative legal research and analysis, delivering impressive results in review of laws, legal principles and standards. Solomon is a partner at Solomon Okedara & CO (a firm of Barristers and Solicitors) and founded Expression Now (an organization committed essentially to defence of digital rights).
Solomon is a strategic litigation lawyer with a robust interest and proven expertise in Freedom of Expression, Digital Rights, Cybercrimes and Human Rights litigation. He is a 2016 Short Term Research Fellowship Recipient of International Center for Not for profit Law (ICNL), Washington DC. Solomon was a Finalist at the 2018 Global Freedom of Expression Prize of Columbia University in the city of New York.
Solomon obtained LLB from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria, Certificate in Private International Law, Hague Academy of International Law, the Netherlands and Certificate in Summer Program in International Development and Environment of Washington College of Law, American University, Washington DC. He is a Case Writer/Researcher for Global Freedom of Expression project of Columbia University in the City of New York.
Carolina Paulesu
Legal Clerk, Civil Court of Appeal of Milan
Carolina is a Legal Clerk at the Civil Court of Appeal of Milan, where she deals with a number of different private law cases. This experience will allow her to access both the bar exam and the judicial exam. She holds a Master's Degree in Law obtained summa cum laude from the University of Milan and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the London School of Economics. She wrote her LL.M. dissertation on the interaction between Artificial Intelligence and consumer protection, claiming AI may be used by consumers to strengthen their contractual position and achieve social justice in contract law. In September 2021, she will start a PhD at the European University Institute (EUI) further investigating the same topic.
Igor Popović
Teaching and research assistant at the Banjaluka University, Faculty of Law (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Igor is a senior teaching and research assistant at the Banjaluka University, Faculty of Law (Bosnia and Herzegovina), where he obtained his LL.B as the best student in the generation. He holds LL.M. from the University of Belgrade and he is a Ph.D. candidate at the same university (researching on freedom of expression and the Internet). Igor passed the exam with distinction at the Summer school on European Integration, European Forum Alpbach in 2013, and the bar exam in 2020.
During his studies, he was awarded various local and international scholarships, including the Full Scholarship of the European Forum Alpbach (2013) and the Chevening Scholarship for Oxford Magister Juris graduate course in 2020/2021, which he declined due to the pandemic. Igor participated in various conferences, summer schools, and projects in the country and abroad.
As a supervisor at the Centre for Public Speaking "Institutio Oratoria", Igor teaches students on public speaking and coaches students of the faculty's moot-court team for human rights competitions. In 2018 he co-founded the Human Rights Week at the faculty and collaborates with international organizations and NGOs such as the Council of Europe and the OSCE Mission in B&H, being a member of the OSCE roster of local experts on ECHR.
Igor acted as an adviser or a counsel in several cases before local courts related to human rights and constitutional law. The main areas of his research are human rights, ECHR, and international (public and private) law.
Darius Ruff
Darius Ruff is a final-year law student at the Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and majors in international, transnational and European law. In addition, he studies Business and Economic Law, striving for a LL.M. degree. His international experience includes a foreign semester in Chongqing, China, promoted with a grant by the German Academic Exchange Service and a participation in an international moot court programme on international investment arbitration. Furthermore, he works as a research assistant for a study program on international economic law. Overall, he is an avid learner in contemporary political, economic, legal and societal issues.
For Global Freedom of Expression, Darius researches on decisions of German-speaking courts with a focus on constitutional jurisprudence.
Marco A. Sabino
Dr. Marco A. Sabino is a researcher who provides legal analysis of Freedom of Expression in Brazil and South America. He is partner of Mannrich and Vaconcelos Lawfirm where he is Head of Media and Internet Area. He worked as an executive for Globo TV, one of the America's biggest broadcasters, in the advertising area. He holds a Ph.D. in Litigation from the University of São Paulo, School of Law. His dissertation – a study of the judicial intervention on public health – was awarded as the best dissertation of 2015 by the University São Paulo. He holds a Post-Doctorate in Democracy and Human Rights at University of Coimbra, Portugal, and his dissertation was a study on the spectrum of freedom of expression on commercial advertising. He was Academic Visitor at the Centre For Social-Legal Studies of Oxford University, United Kingdom, and studied the right to be forgotten. He is a lawyer with 18 years experience, professor of Ethics, Law, Corporate Governance and Media and Internet. He was member of the Board of Brazilian Self-Regulatory Advertising Council. He is researcher of ILD, Digital Freedom Institute. Additionally, he has earned post-graduate certificates in Civil Procedure and Litigation (Catholic Law School, São Paulo), Civil and Commercial Law (Autonomous Law School of São Paulo) and Teaching (University Anhembi-Morumbi).
Marija Šajkaš
Marija Šajkaš (pronounced as Maria Shay-kash) is a U.S. based writer, media expert and political analyst, and founder of 4 Better Media. Her most recent appearances and projects include work for the Freedom of the Press, Freedom House (2017), High-Level OSCE Chairmanship Conference "Freedom of the Media in the Western Balkans" in co-operation with the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2017), Mayor's Office of immigrant Affairs in New York City (2016), Global Freedom of Expression Initiative at Columbia University (2016), CORO– Immigrant Civic Leadership Program (2015) and Association of Media in Bosnia (2015).
Before that, Mrs. Šajkaš was the Head of Development and Operations for Media Diversity Institute –USA, a Press Officer for The International Committee of the Red Cross, and a Deputy-Editor-in-Chief of The Bridges Magazine, the first media outlet distributed in post-war Bosnia, produced by the United Nations, SFOR Forces.
She holds an M.S. in International Affairs, with a concentration in Culture and Media Studies, from The New School University in New York, and a BS in Serbian Language and Literature from the University of Belgrade. Marija Šajkaš is the author of the novel Esther Jovanovich's Scrapbook (Klett, 2013) and co-author of the TV documentary "Missing- the Right to Know". (2003)
Sanskriti Sanghi
Lecturer of Jurisprudence at the Jindal Global Law School, India
Sanskriti Sanghi is an alumna of the University of Cambridge, where she read for her Master of Law with a specialisation in International Law. She graduated from Cambridge in 2020 with First Class Honours and as a recipient of the Jennings Prize (Wolfson College). Prior to pursuing her graduate studies at Cambridge, Sanskriti was an undergraduate student at the Gujarat National Law University (GNLU) in India where she was an Aditya Birla Scholar, and from which she graduated in 2019 as a recipient of 8 gold medals. During her time at these institutions, Sanskriti interned with well-renowned firms and organizations in India and abroad, and had her academic work published in reputed national and international journals and blogs. Presently, she is a lecturer of Jurisprudence at the Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) as well as a co-leader for the Digital Constitutionalism research cycle at the Institute for Internet and the Just Society.
Sarah Sheikh Ali
Sarah is the co-founder and director of HuMENA for Human Rights and Civic Engagement.
She holds a Master's degree in Political Sciences and International Relations with a concentration in International organizations and non-governmental organizations management, and a diploma in International Human Rights Law from the International Institute of Human Rights (Fondation René Cassin), Strasbourg.
Sarah has an intensive experience in CSO development, advocacy, gender, transitional justice, and democratization sector.
She held different programmatic positions with increasing responsibilities in local, regional, and international NGOs in the Middle East.
In 2018 she was selected for the top 10 list of the "Arab Youth Humanitarian Activism Award".
Sanjana Srikumar
Delhi-based advocate in the chambers of Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Vice President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties
Sanjana Srikumar is a Delhi-based advocate in the chambers of Mr. Sanjay Parikh, Vice President of the People's Union for Civil Liberties. Her work focuses on litigation in the areas of human rights, civil liberties and environment law, primarily at the Supreme Court of India.
Sanjana graduated with a B.A. LL.B. (Hons.) from National Law University, Jodhpur in 2017. Sanjana is also an alum of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition (2014-2015) as well as the Annenberg-Oxford Media Policy Summer Institute 2017.
After graduation, she worked briefly as a Research Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, working on strategic litigation and policy research on the right to education, health and environment.
Aleksandar Stevanović
Aleksandar Stevanović LL.M, lawyer and Research Associate at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade, Serbia
Aleksandar Stevanović LL.M is a lawyer (attorney at law) and Research Associate at the Institute of Criminological and Sociological Research in Belgrade, Serbia, currently participating in the various projects related to anti-corruption mechanisms in the country and abroad. He has obtained LL.M. from the University of Belgrade where he is a Ph.D. candidate. He has attended Comparative Law study program at the University of Salzburg, Austria and has conducted study visit to Italian anti-corruption institutions as a member of OSCE mission in Serbia delegation. During his professional career he has published more than 30 scientific papers in the country and abroad, and co-edited several scientific monographs and has been dealing with a number of different private law and criminal law cases related to freedom of expression, defamation, slander, whistleblowing, SLAPP etc. His research focuses on whistleblowing and legal aspects of investigative journalism as a tools for combating corruption, freedom of expression within employment relationship, discrimination, legal aspects of political speech and lobbyng, and ECHR jurisprudence related to freedom of expression. Aleksandar is an alumni of the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition (2017, Oxford).
Giorgi Sulkhanishvili
Chief Adviser in the Department of Legal Provision and Research, Constitutional Court of Georgia
Giorgi Sulkhanishvili is a Chief Adviser in the Department of Legal Provision and Research at the Constitutional Court of Georgia, where he mainly works on legal issues of the pending cases, performs legal research, provides the judges of the Constitutional Court with legal advice and drafts the judgments of the Court.
Giorgi is a co-founder of the "Law and Innovation Research Center (LIRC)" – an NGO, which focuses on two main research areas: 1. Law and Technologies; 2. Approximation of the EU-Georgia association agreement. In different periods, Giorgi was a visiting lecturer of the constitutional and human rights law at two Georgian universities (Ilia State University and Grigol Robakidze University).
Giorgi holds master's degrees (LLM) in Comparative Constitutional Law from the Central European University (Budapest) and in Private Law from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. Giorgi also studied EU law and economics at Riga Graduate School of Law (Latvia). Giorgi is a Ph.D. candidate at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University. The right to privacy and the police searches and seizures are at the center of his research interests.
With his native Georgian, Giorgi speaks fluent English and Russian.
Dushyant Thakur
Mr. Dushyant Thakur is a final-year undergraduate student of Law and Commerce at Gujarat National Law University, Gandhinagar, India [GNLU]. He has worked on various areas of law and interned some of the best law firms and think tanks in India. He is also actively involved in pro-bono activities and was awarded the Pro-Bono Award by GNLU in recognition for the same. He has been published by various national and international journals, magazines and blogs. Currently, he is also a senior editor of the GNLU Law Review [TGLR].
Akshita Tiwary
Akshita Tiwary is an undergraduate student at Government Law College, Mumbai, India. She is interested in public international law, international relations and human rights, and hopes to pursue these subjects as part of her higher studies. An enthusiastic public speaker, Akshita has judged and won awards at several Model United Nations conferences. As the Secretary of the Moot Court Association, she has been an active participant in Moot Court Competitions, most notably the Oxford Price Media Law Moot Court Competition, 2019.
Currently, Akshita serves as the Managing Editor for the Commentary section of JURIST, an online legal news and commentary website run by the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She has many renowned publications to her name, including those on forums like the University of Pennsylvania's the Roundtable, the Berkeley Journal of International Law and the Fletcher Forum of World Affairs. A dedicated student, Akshita's future aspiration is to work at the United Nations to further the cause of global peace and human rights.
Atmaja Tripathy
Atmaja is an advocate enrolled with Bar Council of India. Her practice is focused on technology, media and telecom laws, intellectual property laws, competition law and other corporate and civil laws.
Atmaja graduated in BBA.LL. B from Symbiosis Law School, Pune in 2018 and holds diploma degrees in media law and competition law. At law school, she has won multiple scholarships for academic excellence in subjects such as constitutional law and evidence law. Her interests in technology, media and telecommunication laws and constitutional law have led her to pursue prestigious moots and essay competitions, like the Oxford Monroe E Price Media Moot Court Competition, 2015. Atmaja has authored articles on contemporary legal issues in reputed journals including the European Competition Law Review, Kluwer Business Law Journal and BRICS Law Journal.
Valentina Vera Quiroz
Valentina Vera Quiroz is a legal researcher for Global Freedom of Expression at Columbia University. She holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB), and a Minor in Government and Public Affairs from University of Los Andes, Colombia. During Law School, she worked as a teaching undergraduate assistant for Public International Law and Statistics for the Social Sciences, and she was member of the University's Legal Aid Clinic where she worked as legal advisor of victims of the armed conflict in Colombia. Valentina participated at Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, in Washington D.C., where she was awarded as best oralist as well as the best team of the international exhibition rounds.
She has worked as researcher in the compliance practice in Latin America with research on national and international standards. Valentina currently serves as the coordinator of the Latin American Chapter of the Columbia Global Freedom of Expression Initiative at the University of Los Andes, and she coordinates the master's program in International Law at said University.
Her areas of interest include Public International Law, International Law of Human Rights, Comparative and Constitutional Law.
Sofia Verza
Former Visting Scholar, Columbia Global Freedom of Expression
PhD candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Perugia, Italy
Sofia is a PhD candidate at the University of Perugia, Department of Political Science: her research explores the relationship between anti-terror laws and media systems. She holds a master degree in Law from the University of Trento (Italy), with a master thesis on the national security-related limitations to free expression in Italy and Turkey.
She collaborated with the Italian think tank Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBCT) in the realm of the ECPMF project (European Centre for Press and Media Pluralism).
She studied in Istanbul at Bilgi and Yeditepe University, specializing in the field of criminal and media law. In Istanbul, she worked for the IKV Foundation (Economic Development Foundation), which focuses on Turkish-European relations, researching in the field of freedom of expression.

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Australia's insurance losses to climb as globe warms: Munich Re
Financial losses from events related to weather in Australia have risen four-fold over the past 30 years and are likely to increase as climate change intensifies already volatile weather patterns, according to the reinsurance company Munich Re.
''Due to [Australia's] already high natural climate volatility and extremes - droughts, heatwaves, floods - only small changes in climate may result in high losses,'' said Professor Peter Hoppe, the head of Geo Risks Research centre at Munich Re.
"We have unfortunately been extremely susceptible to weather events of the past three to four years" ... Andy Cornish CEO of IAG.
During 1980-2011, there were 820 "loss events" from weather, claiming 1100 lives and costing $US20 billion in insured losses, Munich Re said, citing 2011 dollar values.
The increase in damage related to weather was on par with Asia and behind only North America, where they had risen five-fold to account for half the $1 trillion in worldwide weather catastrophes between 1980 and 2011, the company said.
Professor Hoppe said the threat from climate change for Australia was linked to rising sea surface temperatures.
Warmer seas increase the risk of intense rainfall and floods, and could lead to more intense tropical cyclones, he said.
Munich Re's assessment is based on a database of 30,000 weather-related events that have caused losses. Reinsurers, including Munich Re, use such information to determine the price of insurance policies they sell to insurers.
Insurers such as Insurance Australia Group say there has not been an increase in Australia's international risk rating despite the string of natural disasters in recent years.
''Whilst we have unfortunately been extremely susceptible to weather events of the past three to four years, that's not necessarily a prediction of what will happen in the future,'' said the chief executive officer for IAG's Direct Insurance division, Andy Cornish.
''It's not really changed materially.''
IAG, Suncorp and other insurers said Australian insurance premiums were likely to rise, but it was due to local issues.
The Insurance Council of Australia has been pressing for more action to improve national building and land use codes.
They say there has been a failure to invest in levees and other works that help limit damage during natural disasters.
According to budget papers, the federal government will spend $98.6 million in the four years between 2009-10 and 2012-13 on ''mitigation and resilience'' measures.
The spending on recovery and reconstruction in any one of those years dwarfed the mitigation spending. The tallies were $402 million, $997 million, $479 million and $1.1 billion.
''Mitigation initiatives represent only 3 per cent of what the government spends on post-disaster recovery and reconstruction,'' Mr Cornish said.
''We're not doing enough to protect property and lives.''
A spokesman for the attorney-general's office said mitigation priorities mostly concerned state and territory governments.
Professor Hoppe said governments should communicate about risks but it should be up to individuals to insure against losses due to storms and floods.
The head of public policy and corporate affairs at Suncorp, Chris Newlan, said the company had not yet factored in extra premiums for a warming planet.
He said there were bouts of bad weather every decade, but ''it's fair to say the severity is increasing''.


What is a more perfect combination than pork chops and apple sauce! And apple sauce is so easy to make. Just cut and core the apples, toss with 3 to 4 tablespoons of sugar per pound of apples and 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Add a 1/2" stick of cinnamon if desired. Let it sit for about 20 minutes until liquid forms. Bring to a boil and simmer covered for 20 to 30 minutes until the apples soften. Cool and press through a strainer. The secret to the dreamy pink color is to choose red apples and leave the skin on while simmering.


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The Lady in Pink: A Photo Tour
November 4, 2015 Carla de Guzman
In case you missed the Cities and Marry Me, Charlotte B! photo tours, then this one will be kind of heavy. The Lady in Pink (part of the Fateful Turns bundle!) was born out of one trip to the Musee D' Orsay that pretty much changed me forever. My little sister and I started nerding out on these impressionists, and my reading I Always Loved You basically fuelled the fire to write something related to these artists on my novella. I'm also including my photos of the places featured in the book, although you may have already seen them on my Paris guide. This was supposed to appear in the eBook, but I decided to make it into a blog post instead. You can consider this as a companion to the novella
Are you ready? Then read on for the Lady in Pink tour! Things are arranged according to how they appear in the novella. Spoiler-free, though!
The first painting in the story was one that hit me by surprise. I'm used to Van Gogh using dark blues and painting night skies. Even his sunflowers are sad, in a way. But the Italian Woman looks so bright and happy that it's hard to believe he painted this. This woman is an actress, who famously modeled for Manet, and one of Van Gogh's last ever lovers.
The story of Berthe Morisot is worthy of a story in itself. She is highly regarded as one of the three Madames of the Impressionists, and she is quite possibly the closest to the painters. Berthe's style is always remarked as similar to her 'friend' Manet's. That, and Manet's dozens of portraits featuring her had French tongues wagging at a relationship--despite Berthe later marrying Manet's brother Eugene. This was one of the few paintings praised during the Impressionist Exhibition in 1880, and sold quickly. I imagine her being motherly but a bit strict, given that she was a society woman surrounded by male artists.
I mentioned this painting only in passing, because when I visited the museum, it was the Pissaro version that caught my eye. Edouard Manet painted for the Impressionists at a time when everyone hated their art. So he made this and submitted it to the famous Salon. It looks like a normal painting, but at the time, the Parisians were freaked out by the image of the stark naked woman (a model Manet frequently used) in the middle of an otherwise normal painting. They were shocked at the realism of it, which made Manet's name more attached to scandal than ever. Be sure to look up his painting of Olympia, and see what I mean!
When Martha was seven, she claims to have met Degas, who calls her a "petit ballerina." That statement was inspired by these two pieces. I've met the ballerina statue twice now, and I thought I would give her a little tribute in the story. Degas loved to study the ballerinas and their forms, so a lot of his paintings feature them. The wax statue originally had a real tutu, a doll's dancing shoes, and an actual satin ribbon in her hair!
As mentioned in the story, the museum used to be a train station. This explains why the layout is messy and we were lost half the time with a less than helpful map. Argh.
Henri and Martha meet for the first time in Restaurant Le Chat Noir, just one of the numerous corner cafes that litter around Paris. It was very rare to find a corner without one, and they are always full by the time the sky gets dark.
Martha comes up to Blanche station to meet Henri, and the station opens up right to the Moulin Rouge. This was one of Giovanni Boldini's favorite haunts, and was the kind of place that Marthe de Florian would frequent to meet her clients. This also marks the edge of the Ninth Arrondissement.
Martha and Henri find that the occupant of this painting can pop in and out whenever she wants. I've talked about Marthe de Florian's story before, which served as the main inspiration for the novella.
Marthe and Martha briefly discuss Marie Antoinette's furniture while they clean out the apartment. The Queen had a very specific floral pattern throughout her room, which I thought was pretty iconic, and so added it to the story. I wouldn't be surprised if Marthe owned one of those chairs!
Note on Louis XIV: I mention him quite a few times in the novella. But Louis XIV, builder of Versailles, loved the story of Apollo so much that he called himself the Sun King.
Martha and Henri seek refuge in the Luxembourg Gardens after her first scare with Marthe. You can see how this place can totally relax you, if you don't mind the sand. That building across the pond is the current Senate House of France, and the former home of a Medici.
We lived on the Marais side of Rue de Rivoli, an affordable and charming area of Paris. We woke up to the sounds of jets flying over our apartment on Bastille Day, with out neighbors stepping out to their balconies to see them. We never saw our neighbours again. There was a Fireman's Ball happening a few blocks away from us, but it was by invitation only, boo!
It was a HOT summer day when we crossed this bridge, so I could barely take a picture of the Eiffel Tower on the right without burning. But this elegant bridge is a gorgeous spot in Paris. That's the Invalides at the end, the Grand Palais is behind you, and the Eiffel Tower is just off the Seine. Probably the most romantic spot in Paris. Argh, take me back!
The idea that French people hate the Eiffel Tower is true. I didn't see any locals there at all.
Martha goes to the Musee D' Orsay and views this painting to try to speak to Boldini. This lively scene immediately caught my eye, and I didn't know it was a Boldini until I read the card beside the painting. I like to imagine the woman in front with the pink rose on her breast is Marthe meeting her lover Auguste for the first time--thus the book cover.
And that's it! I hope you enjoyed our little jaunt through Paris. Make sure you read/download the Lady in Pink, available exclusively on the Buqo store. :)
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In Books, Travel, Writing Tags Lady in Pink, Paris, Paris Tour, Photo Diary
Unforgettable Moments in Paris
Paree holds the key to her heart! Or at least that's what they said in Anastasia. My first trip to Paris was jam packed into two days of great moments, ones that I will never be able to forget. I've boiled it down to six things, and that sounds a little strange to hammer it down into six things. These are probably the six most quintessential experience that every second person to enter this city has had, but they're ones that I hold near and dear to my heart. The reason why we only had two says was because we joined a tour group with Trafalgar. What? I hear you say, are you serious? Yes, I am serious. We knew nothing about Europe, and with little kids, it was better that we didn't really have to think too much about what we should do next. Our tour guide was a walking encyclopaedia of vast knowledge, and made sure we made the most of our short time. I have to say we achieved that goal! It was tiring but oh so worth it.
1. Cruising along the Seine and Walking the Champs Élysées
My first experience of Champs Élysées is, ironically enough, from the Korean TV show Running Man, where they had to sing it while in Petit France in Korea. Then I heard this version by Zaz, and it was my soundtrack for our whole afternoon jaunt.
Our Seine cruise was so much fun--everyone was sitting out in the sun and waving at the silly tourists taking a boat ride. We saw people dancing by the water, most of them drinking in public.
Then of course, there was the Arc de Triomphe, marking the start of the Champs Elysees. It's WAY bigger than I ever pictured it to be, and so hard to take a photo of! I got really lucky with this one, what with all the tour buses zipping in and out.
2. Going up the Eiffel Tower
I hear the wanderlusters scoffing, but I wasn't going to miss this. Stunning views of Paris, scary steel elevator? Oui please!
The perfect place to fall in love, really. Although I had to close my eyes on the shaky elevator ride up.
We didn't care whether people were judging, we just took photo after photo after photo after photo....
3. Visiting the notre dame
The soundtrack this time was the Hunchback of Notre Dame's 'God Help the Outcasts.' I was so terrified of this movie as a child, and now I might appreciate it more (but I'm still scared of the film!).
It's an architectural wonder, and I had no idea that it was Catholic! No wonder it took three hundred years to build.
4. Walking around the latin quarter
We all have visions of what a city would look like, and I imagined that all of Paris would be much like the Latin Quarter--a mishmash of detailed buildings of different colors and sizes, small shops and corner cafes.
I was surprised to learn that I actually pictured the Latin Quarter before knowing what it was. But it's a fun place to explore, and while I would love to explore it more next time, I'm pretty happy that we were able to have lunch there.
Here's our lunch spot--Le Saint Severin was a corner cafe in front of a medieval church, just a few steps away from the Notre Dame. We had yummy fondue, silky foie gras, soft boeuf bourginon and ice cream for 10 euros each! Even if we had to scarf it all down.
5. Walking around the louvre
It was a HOT spring day when we were given free reign around the Louvre. We walked to Pont Des Arts, which didn't really live up to its reputation (there were so many locks that they had to board it up to keep people from adding more), but the courtyard of the Louvre was incredibly charming, if scorching hot.
6. Exploring Montmarte and the Sacre-Coeur
We almost didn't go up to Montmarte--there weren't enough people in our group who wanted to go. But our tour director was more than happy to help us get there himself. After an uphill walk, crazy tram ride up the side of a hill, we were there! It was another moment of the trip where you just had to stop and sigh at the view. And everyone was sitting in the steps, drinking beer sold on the street while buskers busked.
In Montmarte, it was all about the corner cafes. I didn't see one in Paris that wasn't full. There were a few tourists that had their portraits made by the local artists, and scammers handing out red roses. But our focus was on just taking it all in, and grabbing a few prints and postcards too.
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A Northern Light
by: Jennifer Donnelly (author)
Carnegie Medal Winner, United KingdomLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winner Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.Sixteen-year-old... show more
Carnegie Medal Winner, United KingdomLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winner Borders 2004 Original Voices Award Winner Named a Best Book of 2003 by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, School Library Journal, The Irish Times, The Times (London), The Financial Times and The Albany Times-Union.Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Brown entrusts her with the task of burning a secret bundle of letters. But when Grace's drowned body is fished from the lake, Mattie discovers that the letters could reveal the grim truth behind a murder.Set in 1906 against the backdrop of the murder that inspired Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy, Jennifer Donnelly's astonishing debut novel effortlessly weaves romance, history, and a murder mystery into something moving, and real, and wholly original.Includes a reader's guide and an interview with the author.
ASIN: 152053107
Publish date: September 1st 2004
Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Mystery
Fiction Fantastic rated it 6 years ago
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Jennifer Donnelly does it again... Well, this is technically her debut YA novel, but not the first one I read so... anyway, semantics!A Northern Light centres around small American country, and Mattie, who's a young woman yearning for more than her farming community can promise her. I liked Mattie a...
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Title: A Northern LightAuthor: Jennifer DonnellyPublisher: HMH Books for Young ReadersPage Count: 408My Copy: HardbackSource: Public Library Report CardCharacters A-Plot A Setting B+ CharactersFirst off is Mattie Gokey, our protag. She's brilliant, especially for a young woman of the time who had...
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A Northern Light is one of those books you come across every few years; the type of novel that buries itself in your heart from the first page and simply lingers in your thoughts for days, weeks, and even months afterward. Although I've probably read at least two books and three novellas since I set...
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Not usually my kind of thing but ended up really enjoying it! Mattie is such a great character. Review to come :)
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I just remembered having read this charming young adult novel quite a few years ago. My opinion on this book may, therefore, be of litte use, but the fact that I add this book after all means that it is a book that is somewhat worth remembering. The main character is a smart girl named Mattie, who h...
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This medium size antique Naga Singing and Healing Bowl has a middle octave F# (364Hz) fundamental when struck or played with a suede ringer, and a fifth octave B (990Hz) when played around the rim with a wooden one. It's a very responsive bowl and easy to play.
This is a fabulous example of this bowl form, and in perfect structural condition. It also has the most beautiful antique patina and colour acquired over a lifetime of service.


Google has just announced a new tool called ARCore that will allow developers to write applications and games enhanced reality of millions of smart devices operating system to run mobile devices Android, and is a direct response from the company on the platform of Apple's enhanced reality called ARKit, During the WWDC conference a few months ago, and allow iOS developers to provide enhanced reality applications for iPhone and iPad mobile phones.
The enhanced reality allows developers to install digital content in the real world, such as Google's animated lion image, which shows how to place the lion directly on the street, which is a good example of multiple use cases. Previously, Google had no answer on Apple's platform. But this has now changed with the new announcement.
Google has invested in the Tango platform for the enhanced reality, but it requires special devices and sensors on the new smart phones, and it was clear that their development may be delayed, and things have changed now and there will be no need to rely on new devices so that the company can provide enhanced reality applications for phones Android is currently in the market, where the giant hopes to search for the enhanced reality applications are ready to work on 100 million devices before the development tool out of the preview version.
Phones that support enhanced reality include the Galaxy S8 and Google Pixels operating Android version 7.0 or higher, and hopes that the company will eventually allow the tool to run the reality enhanced the millions of Android devices belonging to the various manufacturers of Samsung and Huawei and LG and Asus and others, Do not require additional hardware.
The ARCit platform, similar to the ARKit platform, is provided by Java / OpenGL, Unity and Unreal, and will provide three features: motion tracking (so that the camera can be used to detect user parking space), environmental understanding (so that horizontal surfaces can be detected) Illumination (matches the lighting and shadow of default objects with the user's perimeter lighting).
Google said in the announcement statement of the platform that it is already working on the construction of three-dimensional tools well suited to the ARCore platform, so that developers can create the content of the adventurous reality, and the company is also working on the technology of reality and other adventurous, such as visual positioning service to experience the reality of the advent of Global range, and web browsers that are compatible with immersive reality.


Ximena Sol Gomez Della Valle was born in Montevideo Uruguay in 1984.
She attended the University of Fine Arts in Montevideo and in 2011 she got her Bachelor diploma in Visual Arts. In the year 2010 she became part of the "Research Group of Contemporary Art Practice and its Aesthetics Statements" (G.I.P.A.C.E.E).
During that period she was involved in community-based art projects.
In 2013 she moved to Switzerland and studied at the HSLU (Hochschule Luzern) Kunst und Design the Master in "Art in Public Spheres". In the last years she became interested in sound art and began to undertake different art research projects. In June 2015 she finished her studies and got her Diploma as a Master of Arts in Fine Arts.
Actually she lives and works in Switzerland.


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The drama was completely filmed and set to run for 16 episodes. After a slightly disappointing run, they cut it down to 15. Now, I actually liked the pace of this episode better to the lagging that this drama had for the past several episodes, but since they cut it down, I think a lot happened that just didn't make sense in the grand scheme of things. We didn't even really get any notifications that there was a time jump [but I think there was], things snapped into place way too conveniently without any explanation as to how they came about, and we never got to see Chungdamdong Gumiho which was performed, but we got to see several cuts from Bae Kang Hee's last performance in Count Monte. WTF. Really? How disappointing!
This is will very brief and not too thorough as not a whole hella lot happened that can necessarily be explained as I think we might have had some integral scenes missing due to the series being cut by one episode. Anywho, like always, don't read any farther if you don't want the ending completely spoilt.
We backtrack to Eun Bi performing and Kang Hee threatening to completely annihilate her career and Gumiho. However, Jin has other plans. He manages to get a document to the meeting just in the nick of time saying that he gave Gu Jak back all rights to the musical, thus making it eligible for the DIMP prize and funding. Woot! Kang Hee's plan to have the musical shelved has gone awry in a good way. Joon Hyuk goes to tell them the news and the gang all celebrates. He then calls up Ra Kyung to tell her what happened as well.
Kang Hee, unable to accept what happened, plays her trump card yet again. What is it? She calls up Yu to complain about his grandson. Eyeroll. Of course, Jae Joon is there and tells his grandfather all about Jin liking some girl in the musical, you know the one that even went to Sun Hee's funeral. This does not make Yu happy at all so he takes action against his grandson. How? Jin has been reassigned to the secretarial pool of the corporation. Seriously? Oh, and the incompetent Jae Joon is put as the head of the Amour fund once again. He quickly goes back to his old ways of siphoning company funds and doing things half-assed. When he tries to find out what is happening with Gumiho, JIn's assistant quickly hands in his resignation letter leaving Jae Joon to figure things out for himself.
Jin has also handed in his resignation letter to his grandfather. He understands that his grandfather thinks it is the right and best move for him to go back to the main company that way, and Jin may regret this decision later, but he must go his own way and do what he wants. Jin is floored when his assistant shows up and tells him that Gumiho is on the right track, but will need the help of a great financial advisor such as Jin. So Jin meets with Jae Yi and Gu Jak and offers his services and financial support for a small, really small, percentage of the profits. Gu Jak and Jae Yi cannot believe this offer and that Jin wants to put up some money to help himself. Jae Yi wants to decline immediately. Now, whether or not his offer is ever accepted is very unclear in all of this and that's annoying as all hell.
Of course things don't go smoothly for everyone. Sang Won is worried that Jae Joon took over the fund as he is totally different from Jin. Kang Hee tells him he doesn't need to worry about anything because as long as she's his wife, he will get the money to put up whatever he wants. This does not make Sang Won happy at all. We also have Gumiho hit a snag when all theaters that were supposed to be putting on the show cancel thanks to Jae Joon's scheming. Jae Yi immediately goes to bawl Kang Hee out, but Eun Bi stops him as there is no point in confronting the other woman, and what if she wasn't the one who did it. Jae Yi smiles and compliments Eun Bi on growing up. She is no longer crying and saying everything is her fault like she did in the past.
We get lots of cute Eun Bi-Jae Yi moments as their relationship progresses. Eun Bi also learns about her grandmother helping other older women learn how to use computers and the internet and she learns that her father is no longer completely against her doing musicals [since she's got the lead and even one 1st in a competition]. We also have Ra Kyung and Joon Hyuk progressing nicely even though Ra Kyung is still insistent that nothing will ever come of their relationship. When Ra Kyung learns of the theater incident from the normally perky Joon Hyuk, she quickly goes into action and gets her uncle's newly built theater for the show. Oh, and Ra Kyung and Jin end up meeting. He's happy to see that she's doing well. Ra Kyung asks if he really wants to help out with Gumiho since she, Joon Hyuk, Jae Yi, and Eun Bi are all in it. Jin's okay with that.
I am happy that Jin is pursuing what he wants to do, but is anyone else a little sad that he gets no one? I mean, he and Ra Kyung obviously weren't meant to be together, but I really did think he and Eun Bi had a friendship connection which could have become more if there was no Hong Hae Yi [even though I like those two, I really think there was more between Jin and Eun Bi than Jae Yi and Eun Bi].
We get several partial performances from Count Monte and then we cut to Kang Hee at her dressing table singing a song from the musical. However, she can't hit the notes like she was able to before. Kang Hee keeps trying and it just gets worse. What's happening to her? Meanwhile, Jae Yi and Eun Bi practicing a final time before the opening day of Gumiho. Jae Yi is worried that Eun Bi won't take good care of herself and wants her to stay overnight, but Eun Bi refuses. Why? She senses that Jae Yi's intentions aren't completely honorable [proven true when he goes to kiss her].
And here we start getting into the WTF happenings. I mean, we have Yu hearing from Jin Young who is apparently back in the family business and working on the China proposal. They are in trouble if they can't manage to get the 100 million they need. So in comes Jin to the rescue. He got an American investor to take over from Seo backing out. He will also go to China with his dad to help. Say what? Oh, and happily Ra Kyung decides that she and Joon Hyuk can be together and their romance is progressing nicely. As for Eun Bi and Jae Yi? Eun Bi finally spends the night with Jae Yi. He says he really loves her and her response is that she thinks she loves him. Oh geez.
And. That's it. We then get an entire recap of the series after the Eun Bi-Jae Yi sleep over.
WHY, WHY no scenes from Gumiho!? How did the bad feelings get healed between the Yus? Kang Hee turned over a completely new leaf and decides to stay with her husband after losing her voice. She finally drinks the milk that Eun Bi brought her all the time instead of giving it all to her cat. Her turn around, although expected and nice, still almost seems unbelievable. And what happened to make Ra Kyung realize she can be with Joon Hyuk? What happened to Jae Joon and the fund? What happened with Gumiho? Was it a huge success? And just how did Gu Jak and Sang Mi become an official couple?
They didn't tie up loose ends, but created more. Not a horrible drama. It had some great points, but lagged when they got away from the musical and into the drama between the people. I think it would have been better if they could have mixed more of the musical in with the interpersonal relationships. And ending early, they ended without clearing things up and making things confusing by doing things without putting in some needed explanations.